Castlevania: Harmony of Despair (2010)
Genres:Adventure, Platform
Themes:Action, Historical, Horror
Game modes:Single player, Co-operative, Multiplayer
Story:Castlevania: Harmony of Despair is a crossover platform-adventure game that features a new map system which allows players to see the current quest map's entire setup, as well as up to six players at once over Xbox Live. The game was first leaked as an OFLCA Rating on May 27, 2010, then officially announced for Xbox Live Summer of Gaming 2010. Later in the year, the game was unveiled as a playable demo in the Konami booth at the E3 Convention of 2010.Show more
Vote to bring this game to GOG and help preserve it.1 503
This is a great multiplayer game when you get a group going. Stuck on PS3/Xbox. Met some cool people playing this before, and a complete package would be an insta-buy for me.
Castlevania: Harmony of Despair should have been part of the Castlevania Dominus Collection! It's one of the best offline multiplayer games I've ever played! It's a lot of fun to play with friends in the same room! The boss battle in the third stage, which takes up almost the entire map, is spectacular! This game deserved to be included in the last collection, which even uses sprites and scenarios from the three games in the Dominus Collection! But I hope Konami fixes this injustice! Castlevania: Harmony of Despair deserves to be re-released for PC so we can play with our friends, whether online or offline, which in my opinion is the best way to play!
Dropped an INCREDIBLe amount of hours into this one when i was younger. always happy to play healer with charlotte or run as fast as possible with sonic boots. Please bring it back, I regularly tell my friends about this game as one of the highlights of multipler castlevania.
Yes, it will definitely be a great addition to the game collection on the GOG platform.
Step into the shadows of the hell house: Castlevania is back in all its pixel-powered 2D glory.
Call upon the series' most hallowed heroes and vanquish your nemesis, Dracula! All-new multiplayer modes like 6-player Co-op and Survival have been whipped up for you, too... but enough talk. Have at it!
Ok look, hear us out. Is this the best CV game? No. Does it have problems? Yes. But by god if this isn't one of the most fun multiplayer games ever. Mixing and matching the characters and their mechanics and taking the different routes each character was allowed to take through a level was so rewarding. Plus, it was SIX PLAYER!! How many non competitive games allow you to play with six people!!! This game was awesome, and deserves a modern version with proper online multiplayer.
playing this with a bunch of friends locally was such a blast, grinding for treasure, dying to dumb traps and easy bosses and navigating the map as the screen got smaller and smaller as you moved apart gave me some great memories
This is such a unique and cool vision of what a multiplayer co-op game can be and its tragic that there is no real legal way to play it anymore. It never did numbers but it was ahead of its time honestly and I think it would do better now that online is more commonplace. Honestly playing Nightreign made me think about it again as it actually has some similar DNA. Anyways this is a hidden gem that deserves polished and a moment in the sun
I have this with all the extra content on both Xbox 360 Live Arcade and PSN. I played both versions to a very high degree. Lots of fun to be had, and I've spent actual thousands of hours on this game.
A note for bringing this over with pros and cons of each platform:
XBLA:
Pros - Clean visuals designed for 1080p (this is the original version), all the item/skills and character balancing are present here with its final patch.
Cons - No same-console multiplayer. Network matchmaking only.
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PSN:
Pros - Able to play with 4 players on a single profile locally, which allows for easier loot progression, especially with the more rare boss drops.
Cons - Issues with frame rate/frame pacing, the visuals don't scale well to 1080p, appear to be closer to 720p. Biggest con, though, is that some of the DLC characters lack their last balance patches from the XBLA version, despite this version coming out at least a year later.
If this is preserved, I'd prefer the XBLA version over the PSN version mainly due to some of the characters being rendered useless, or at least severely underpowered on PSN compared to their XBLA counterparts. Ideally, the local multiplayer feature of the PSN version would be great to have ported to the XBLA, which would easily make it a definitive version.
I miss spending hundreds of hours grinding for gear for my favorite Castlevania characters back in the Xbox 360 days. Was such a fun game to grind and master with friends and even randos. Would love to see this game brought back with online MP support.
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